Memorial church im in support of the definition of controls for homeless shelters you cant mall and curtis and yolanda and james and dominique and ramona and charles a small number of the glide members who have been or are still homeless that im here to remind i behind the rhetoric is human beings someones fathered and mom san franciscans can for whatever reason call our city streets their home as the largest shelter in the city we experience heartache to turn people away its hard to turn someone out into the dark into the cold into the rain as all we can do well see them in the morning housing is a basic need we all require in order to thrive as long as we limit the citys ability to have shelter we limit the opportunity for people to have a better life were willing to embrace our neighbors even the ones who the rest of the world render invisibly this is one way or another what happened when we give our resources we all are enriched we can do this in words of st. Francis start by doing
And staff visit a few shelters and finds the proposals of this ordinance was reflecting their current practices of Operation Staff supports the proposal to exempt the homeless shelters for bicycle fee requirements the purpose of the shelters to maximum mess their capacity Glen Eagle Golf Course the life and Safety Standards this appliances with the purpose and lose the occupancy limit without additional indenting density elements and lastly it defines Good Neighbor policy those are policies regarding reps with the neighbors and including the security plan for the hours of operation sidewalk maintenance and signage and on Site Management that concludes my presentation. Id like to introduce mr. Duffey. Commissioners, thank you for having me here i want to note at 5 oclock well be vice chair our homeless folks that died on the Streets Program were talking a life or death situation there are 6,000 plus Homeless Individuals if San Francisco 34 hundred living on the street 18 in street progr
Years im here to support the legislation for 3rd district ems housing is an issue if San Francisco if youre homeless and go inside and are hows your not homeless anymore thats that that simple as we looked at our map to put shelter there are opportunities in 3rd district as and i went 80 up the district the other day theyre not going to be coming from all over theyre there Portland Square theres a great need ive gotten people off the streets and the wafer and embarcadero there theyre there are and thats not going away its all over i see a huge need weve gotten 3 hundred people into housing a e and that impacts unus on Washington Square i hope you support the protective and is there any additional Public Comment. Hi my name is Susan Rebecca im going to reader from is prepared statement i work to Youth Alliance we i did u uses to run a facility in the hate ashbury until we lost the lease because of the neighborhood resistance from the homeless we cannot secure another location in the hat
Homeless streetcars good afternoon planning staff staff before you today is American People organization amending the distinction for the homeless strerlt the mayor has been working with that introduced by mayor ed lee i want to acknowledge dusty the mr. Mayors of hope that will present after my presentation today San Francisco planning code into compliance with the state law shelters meaning without a public hearing as in one Zoning District this legislation is a part of the 2014 housing update that will come before you if a few weeks currently, the San Francisco planning code didnt include a definition for planning code which those are Group Housing is a hotel use theyre not allowed in a Zoning District in San Francisco therefore in the few cases that homeless shelters are out of planning with the stale the planning code in compliance with the state law regarding homeless shelters it creates a definition in based on on new operations it also allows this as a use of right in the Zonin
And their concerns and i encourage the public to be more substantive in their comments and ceqa is the third rail and people dont want to talk about reforming and there are issues with ceqa and they talked about specific things and i encourage us to have that debate as soon as possible so i would like to hear it on the 29th. Commissioner borden. Yeah. I think the issue here is the fact if the supervisor can move forth without the input and we want input by that time we need to stick with the 29 because we dont have to and we heard from members of public they want the conversation here at planning. They feel its the appropriate place to have some of the discussions and i agree exactly with that that we need to have the discussion here so that people and figure out if we need more workshops, more follow up. I think there is a lot to be discussed here. I like when we took supervisor chus legislation and look it apart and had a number of hearings. We didnt just continue it out. We had a bu